Enlightenment · North America · Science

1743

American Philosophical Society Founded

May 1, 1743

Benjamin Franklin, reviving an earlier scheme, invited virtuosi and ingenious men across the colonies to correspond about science, agriculture, medicine, and all philosophical experiments that let light into the nature of things. The society still exists. America had founded its first scientific institution on the model of the Royal Society.

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Before and after in North America

Before: July 16, 1741: Bering Sights Alaska
After: March 15, 1744: King George's War Begins

Before and after in Science

Before: May 17, 1742: Goldbach's Conjecture
After: October 11, 1745: Leyden Jar Invented

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: American Philosophical Society